Quotes About Identity

I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.

Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.

Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.

I lived in L.A. for four years, and basically, every corner you go to, or in a restaurant, you can't even find people from the same background.

I've fully turned a corner in terms of thinking about my own voice. I think I have a pretty cool voice, just sonically.

At school I was the mousey one in the corner that nobody really liked.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director's son or a star's son.

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.

I know that sounds corny. And I know you've heard it before. But it's really true: We're so much more than our bodies.

If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.

I think culture is a big word for corporate character.

Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.

To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.

I'm taking the name The Situation and I'm... like, I don't know, I'm turning it into The Corporation or something.

Many brands have lost their way in the process of evolving from a small company to a much bigger corporation.

I came from an era when I was so proud to be working for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

When I got out of Job Corps, I was an empty shell. I didn't know what to do with myself.

I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

After my time in the Marine Corps with 'don't ask, don't tell,' I didn't want to hide any more.

Why on Earth would the United States ever want to be more like Europe? Correct me if I'm wrong, but we left, did we not? Not only did we leave that older, lesser world behind, but we left skid-marks along the way with an entire continent eating our proverbial dust.

I'm not trying to erase my culture or my faith, I'm trying to be the best version of myself, and it's really hard. I don't think I'm right, I don't claim to be correct, I'm just trying to figure it out and figure out a balance.

Our hair and makeup team at 'This Is Us' had made me a mohawk to wear. I couldn't apply it correctly.